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Proponents of California’s Sanctuary State (Senate Bill 54) would force law enforcement to not cooperate with federal immigration officers and place cities’ federal funding in jeopardy. An option President Trump may exercise.

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My view of government is there needs to be a balance between a strong central government and state's rights.

Pooling our collective resources to establish a military to defend our country is important and has been historically demonstrated. A national currency to allow the smooth flow of money through our economy is important. National public health standards are important, etc.

I believe in the individual's freedom to choose how to spend their hard earned money and not decided by a bureaucrat who thinks he knows best for us. This is controlled by tax incentives for those wealthy individual who can take advantage of them. The rest of us cannot.

I believe in a smaller, more local, more efficient government that is responsive to you and not their political pocket books.

I believe in regulations that are smart, efficient and protective that do not allow one group or unscrupulous individuals from taking advantage of us. I want well thought out regulations and not an employment vehicle for government employees.

I believe in lower taxes to put more dollars in your pocket. Not a bloated, inefficient government that in 1964 was 6% of the economy where today it is 20% of the economy. Bigger is not better in this case. As our population has grown, because of the economy of scale, the size of government should have become less of our economy but instead has grown tremendously controlling more and more of our lives.

I believe in individual rights for self determination and not government directing my life.

I believe government is not meant to be a national charity deciding where to spend our tax dollars saying it is trying to "stimulate" the economy. The only stimulation here is a politician moving money from one end of the economy to the other based on lobbyist and special interest input that influences their decision to benefit them and not us.

I believe, however, that at a nation, it is in our best interest to pool our resources to help those who legitimately cannot help themselves. We are a generous people who take care of our neighbors, but that generosity ought not create pauperism and dependency of our fellow American.

I believe politicians should be serving us and not enriching their bank accounts by using committee's "insider information" to put their investments where their committee policy takes the country.

I believe in you and every American who have a greater collective wisdom than anything we bring together in Congress.

If that makes me a Democrat or Republican, you decide. I consider myself an American who believes in the vision of our founding fathers through the US Constitution and the framework it has successfully provided for many years. A document often imitated by other countries but never duplicated.

We started as a unique experiment in 1776. I think we can say the experiment can be called a success.

What has changed in recent years is politicians who were elected to serve us are serving their financial success at our expense. Politicians have successfully pitted American against American with the media complicit in the misinformation while both the media and politicians go to the bank. And we are paying for it.

In my opinion, policy out of Washington and our state capitals have created a fertile environment for the wealthy to become more wealthy. It needs to stop. Thus my run for political office in 2020.